The following topics were identified by the committee as being of interest for a new public library director. If any committee members can identify online resources they know of and add agencies or url's to this list we can begin to build our content.

Existing content to include:

Advocacy resources National:ALA Advocacy :  PLA Smartest Card Campaign

                                Massachusetts: Current Issues and legislator contact information

Bidding: Massachusetts Regional Library Systems Purchasing Cooperative; Comm-PASS; Uniform Procurment Act

Construction Grant Information (MBLC)

Contact Lists for

     regions: Central Massachusetts Regional Library System, MetroWest Regional Library System, Southeastern Massachusetts Library System, North Metro Regional Library System, Western  Massachusetts Regional Library System, Boston Regional Library System

     networks: Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing, Central/Western  Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing, Fenway Libraries Online, Metro Boston Library Network, Minuteman, Merrimack Valley Library Network, North of Boston Library Exchange, Old Colony Library Network, SAILS

     Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners,

     Professional organizations: MLA, NELA, ALA, PLA

Email lists - subscribing info for regional/network/statewide lists

Friends MBLC and Massachusetts Friends of Libraries/

Mass. Library Foundations- MBLC

Fundraising

Grant Sources (MBLC, SEMLS)

Job Description Samples

Policy Samples

Library Schools

Sources of Demographic information: Zipskinny,

Long Range Planning Requirements MBLC)

Long Range Planning Information(MBLC )

Planning for Results Workforms

Roles of regions and Networks (LLMA)

Staff Development (MRLS)

Online staff development and training tutorials

Library Governance  Trustee Handbook link (MBLC)

Weeding

Connecticut Public Library directors' page http://ct.webjunction.org/ct/directorhandbook

http://wiki.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/Connecticut_Public_Library_Director%27s_Handbook

Areas to develop or find

Administrative calendar/ timelines for state, local reports and deadlines

Budgeting- suggested scenarios(?)

Facility maintenance: What's in Your Briefcase

Human Resource Laws

HR techniques: hiring/Firing, Union negotiations, Evaluation

Legal Liability Red Flags

Library governance: roles of state, local and trustees-suggested narratives with possible scenarios

Local Governance Selectman's Handbook

Managing difficult patron behavior (i.e., angry patrons, mentally ill patrons)

Marketing

Media Relations

Mentor List

Public Programming

Public Relations

Service Issues-Privacy, RFID, formats